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What are some thicc fantasy?
are there any sff that includes pussy lighting
Why is it SFF, and not SFFH (SFF + Horror)? They're all speculative fiction.
I Silk making sacrifices for a computer screen?
I just imagine every woman being thicc when i'm reading
Horror is welcome, but our thread title is traditional.
A good drow is an enslaved drow. Only a life of servitude can contain their dark-skinned tendencies.
I just want a low fantasy series with a knight with a big fucking sword cleaving shit in half. No trilogy baiting, no cuckshit, no love triangles,
horror is just spooky fantasy
read Fall of Reach
>Fall of Reach
All of the 41 Halo books or one in particular?
Fall of Reach is a specific book. It's pretty alright, especially for a novel based on a videogame IP.
I read Fall of Reach and never played Halo. Middling military SF. Not the best, not the worst.
See if that tickles your pickle.
>Read first chapter and meet our protagonist
>An anti-social, average looking teenage girl who would be completely unremarkable if it wasn't for her one special power that put her above all her peers who bully her
Oh no...
>fantasy
you were warned, slut.
>yfw the reason why 'loser' protagonists became the norm in fantasy is because loser writers became the norm
>entire genre exists around selling power fantasies to children/infantile manchildren
>"why is this the norm?!?"
>p-please ignore all the female power fantasy bullshit
Leave, roastie.
Make fun of birdboi's font.
>don't ignore female power fantasies
>unless it wins awards reeeeeeeeeeee
back to re**it you go, bucko.
Whats up with Tchaikovsky and his insects?
Actually kill yourself
...
Why are you like this
That's some pretty gay names right there.
TBD what's that
To be declared/decided.
There was a vote last thread.
We know the winner, just waiting for monthly user to post it. Op isn't the usual thread maker so he fucked up and didn't post it in the op.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is the book for April.
REEEEEEEE
IS there a discord
I thought "tribal fantasy" would be neat, I didn't expect the very first chapter would basically be a checklist of YA tropes.
Told you to stay away from modern female authors. Next time listen.
That's the thing user, the author is male, plus the other book I read by him (Guns Of The Dawn) was actually pretty decent as far as fantasies with female leads go.
Adrian is a boy's name here
I don't think you know what thicc is...
i hope this is the right book
www73.zippyshare.com
if anyone have a better translation please upload
>sci-fi is just tech fantasy
dunno about that one. didn't check but this one is the latest kindle edition.
booksdescr.org
yeah i uploaded that one to the zippyshare link
is this in the discord? post the invite
i mean they're birds
thats fitting
>world-building
>magic systems
>first-person narration
He reposted a new version he likes more.
Malazan has Tattersail in it.
>marijuana island
Birdboiiiii
beat me to it
For about 10 seconds
everyone comes back eventually in malazan
and she comes back much sexier
Where are you getting these?
Probably on /tg/ worldbuilding threads.
As a loli?
Either from /tg/ worldbuilding threads or one of the discords birdboi participates in.
Correct, here is another he just posted.
why the fuck do you care?!
Because it pisses off /sffg/ for the most part.
Hardcore radical
So when are the books coming out?
Ah. Shitposting a general. Constructive use of your life. Your parents must be proud.
never
I give you We! Give me a (you)!
Download (verified by some dude™):
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What's a comfy but good sci fi adventure? Preferably no terrible humor
>still 6 hours of wolfblade left
WUZ
So.. You willingly admit you are spamming....
You have to stop apologizing for the lack of GRI.
I think I should suggest Hogg or something next time to shake things up.
Leviathan Wakes (Expanse series). reading it now, there's literally nothing new about it, it's just a setting and atmosphere.
No!
Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks
>www73.zippyshare.com
Just to let you know, zippyshare is apparently blocking almost all UK based IP addresses. It's not hard to get elsewhere, but zippy as a hosting site has that problem.
its a dns block. use zippyshares ip address instead of the domain name.
dns blocks are easy to circumvent. the vast majority of pirates are normies though and they dont know how to do that or just torrent instead.
How long will it take for my brain to collapse on itself if I start reading pic related?
Like the other user said you can bypass many of these isp blocks by using a a different dns, like cloudflare, opendns or google.
If you want a simpler solution, get the opera browser and use the inbuilt vpn when to access the website.
I suggest using a gdrive links for the books instead of these shitty file sharing sites. One gdrive folder with all the monthly books would make it easy for all the regulars to access it.
I'm going to start with it tomorrow. After reading so much modern fantasy shit, I feel like it's my obligation to read Dune. Also, at which sequel should I stop?
Die in a fire tranny
Guys wtf do I read now, I finished Accelerando and feel empty
I didn't read any sequels, the first book was enough for me. But people say to ABSOLUTELY not continue after Frank passed away.
I stopped after the third, but god-emperor of Dune is the farthest you should ever go.
>come up with some interesting scenes for a scifi book and flesh out really nice bits of prose to describe them
>absolutely no way to connect any of them
>no story in me that I need to tell
seems like a waste desu, I just don't have a story in me
is it worth keeping the little bits of writing that I've got down already? I doubt I'll ever have anything worthwhile to write about and I'd rather not just mash things together in a meaningless bit of schlock
Y'all squandered your chance and I am disapoint.
Ah well, We has been on my list, so I'm kinda excited.
Just write short stories nigger
>disqualified all the good books
Next time you go anal I will post the strawpoll on r/fantasy and let them pick what we read next.
The disqualifications were perfectly in line with the original intent of the project as I understood it. Monthly user was a bit lenient recently. Probably the sheer number of nominations drove this action more than anything else. I'd rather vote on an arbitrarily curated handful than the whole mess myself.
>female author makes her female protagonist act like an idiot
>instead of characters calling her out for being an idiot they all think she’s a genius
>goodreads reviewers think this all round idiocy from every female character in the series is an example of strong intelligent female characters
>5 star reviews with 30 gifs and as many letters
>mfw
>If a male writer writes the same idiotic female character he's a sexist pig
>If a male character is badly written the writer is just bad but if a female character is badly written by a male author it's sexism or the writer doesn't understand women.
>A book written by a male author is automatically terrible if women face ANY challenges they cannot overcome or if they're not perfect little mary sues.
>Even a hint of rape or sexual violence will put a male writer on a do not read list.
>The book is automatically good/hugo tier if it's written by a non-white person and has a wemen or a non-white as the lead character
I have way too many sjws in my life who think like this and it's starting to affect my sanity.
>3 hours of Wolfblade left
Why are you doing this to yourself?
Is it bad?
If I can get through 21 hours I can get through 3
That version translates the country as United State, but the more famous translation is OneState like in the Penguin version I've had for a while.
That version also doesn't credit a translator, but the Penguin ver. is by Clarence Brown.
Man I really hate dealing with foreign books and having that extra layer of translation quality to think about. But I'm not learning even more foreign languages just for old sci-fi.
guys i feel like my book is lacking another good plot thread to follow. so far, I have
- incredibly naive priest
- absolute lad
- gestapo knight
I feel like none of these characters are really relatable for the power fantasy shitters. what kind of archetype should i add in
>*steals your novel idea*
When this airs on HBO, remember how dumb you were to post an idea on Yea Forums. :^)
The catgirl
>a priest, a nazi, and a shithead walk into a fantasy novel
>this is enough information for you to steal my ideas
Nice try.
tomboy girl pretending to be a man. old guy farmer turned bandit. something nonhuman. dickass thief. a conan style barbarian but its an amzon women whose hobby is fistsfighting with people after drinking then under the table.
>fantasy
Thanks for the genre too. I hope it was worth it for the 2c insult, haha ha ha hahaha!
>conan style barbarian but its an amzon women whose hobby is fistsfighting with people after drinking then under the table.
this is my fetish.
user, stop before your whole idea is stolen! You could be losing billions from this thread alone!
Like I give a shit. It's about those three characters dealing with a conspiracy, there's no way he could ever guess the nature of the conspiracy, or anything else.
>conspiracy
>fantasy world
>nazi
>madlad
>priest
Hee hee hee, user, if I had to guess I'd say it's a conspiracy involving an empire of sorts. Priests that are helping the ruling class keep the masses drugged with religion, likely the religion is fake, yes? Don't forget about the nazi, he's likely working for the empire, brutalizing the population, likely he discovers something isn't right in the ideals he believed in, no no no, and the madlad, he must be a thief of some kind, heh heh heh heh. I bet he's the catalyst and unlikely protagonist. An idiot who bumbles into everything and sets the entire chain of events off! Thank you thank you thank you, I'll be signing a deal with paramount in the morning!
Are they dealing with a conspiracy to steal a novel idea on an anonymous online image board by chance?
Well that's annoying. Unfortunately there's not much to do about it unless you know of a better translation we can steal.
HOW THE FUCK DO I DELETE MY POSTS IT SAYS THE PASSWORD ISN'T WORKING
WHO DO I CONTACT TO HAVE MY POSTS DELETED
>literally the most blatantly obvious and generic plot ever
>OH NO I'VE BEEN CAUGHT
nigger, just write well and nobody will care. Nobody cared that The Stars My Destination was The Count of Monte Cristo because the universe and writing was great. Stop fucking panicking like a fucking retard, because now everyone here is going to laugh at you. Forever. You're done.
>suggest bad ideas
Who's /devilish/ here?
he's right you know. this is how you end up on kiwifarms and shit.
writefags are so hilariously autistic.
i have this theory that some sort of obsession with an object or theme is required to be a good writer. autism is probably a boon in that sort of situation.
/sffg/, is the end of the first book too early for a main character to meet their dead mom's ghost and get a last minute power boost they need to win?
I know that's an end thing, but I dont know if it has to be the end of the end of a series
Sounds fine, you can wrap it up by giving the mom ghost a corporeal body to have sex with the mc in the epilogue.
They continue to have a relationship in book 2.
Jealous dad ghost can be the final villain in book 3.
Last minute power boosts are lazy fucking writing. Fuck. Why can't authors write a believable arc about attaining power through work? I swear this is why sff sucks right now. Its all wish fulfillment and snapping your fingers to become a boss. Make your character gain skills through hardwork/sacrifice. I swear I'll eventally write my own novel out of spite for low-talent hacks like you. Burn your Naruto fanfic and do something else with your life you useless fucking cunt.
>
its not a deus ex machina in my case, but actually I think you might be right. My character's arc is about his insecurity. Literally a few minutes prior he has a breakdown when he learns that the powers he thought were unique to him were the result of a trinket he was carrying around, and really he's just weak. one could argue that getting a powerup would prevent him from gaining his own strength.
however, given that the trinket in question was his prosthetic arm, one could argue that his character development depends on him making the choice to accept help rather than try to fix everything by himself
You seem upset :DDD
Probably teach you for being a madmaxfag
So he breaks down because he isn't a special snowflake and then mommy comes and makes it all better? Its more infantile than I thought. Make him wrestle with his worth. Sure he's weak, but he has his Dragon Dildo of Major Awesomeness [DDMA]. How would this person react to their greatness being a lie? Look at that. Are they desperate to keep status? Determined to cling to the truth of their existence? Depressed that they really suck? You obviously want this character to gain strength, and accepting help from others isn't a bad thing. Maybe he goes nuts, realizes he has no power without DDMA and cuts off another limb to get another DDMA. Maybe he receives advice from mummy on how to increase his skill/control of DDMA. Maybe he throws DDMA away and reverts to normalcy and trains something else to prove he doesn't need it. Maybe he's so desperate to stay relevant to be as awesome as he thought he takes stupid risks to gain real power for himself. He's already had a magical helper the whole time, so an interesting story would be how he handles that knowledge. Just passively accepting help is MarySue tier characterization. A few minutes is not enough time to deal with that kind of plot twist, unless you do a desperate grab for strength with tons of fallout (rarely done well). You just kicked your character in the balls. Don't plop a horny cheerleader in front of him to salve the wound. Let him squirm and then kick him in the teeth for being such a narcissistic little bitch.
Wtf i love malazan now?!
Pretty good, pretty good. Ideafags, get on it.
and then you have to read the two sequels where she still acts like a thot.
Based idea,but seriously it could be good to resurrect the mom so she can join the mc party,also use this idea too>Ywn go on an adventure with your ghost witch mom and an amazon milf
five minutes was an exaggeration rather than a fact, it's more like a few hours, and there's a few scenes in between where he throws a fit, stages an unplanned breakout, is forced to retreat, learns that his entire quest was pointless from the start, gives in to the wangst, tries to chicken out, and gets some sense slapped into him by the only teammate more useless than he is.
hm... maybe I can make it so that he finds a middle ground. He accepts a replacement his arm, but he doesn't take the power boost, showing both a willingness to accept help, but also confidence in himself
I've been writing a young adult novel. The sort that's
>girl walks into a fantasy world
And I'm wondering if rushing into the fantasy world after going over the premise is fine?
>girl's dad died two years ago
>accidentally ends up applying for a summer job with a wizard
>wizard is going to train her so that they can both go into Wonderland/Narnia/insert-magical-world-here so they can both resurrect their dead loved ones
>whoops circumstances happen they have to go RIGHT FUCKING NOW
That all happens in about ten pages. The rest of the story is world-hopping adventure encountering weird monsters.
Is that fine? I get that it's YA and not really Yea Forums's forte, but I really just want to get into the meat of the story without focusing on inauthentic teen drama.
itll print money if the girl eventually becomes a strong independant womyn that still somehow finds a prince charming or turns into a lesbo.
romance is important for YA. not turbosluttery though. YA readers want either a love triangle with a concise ending or love at first sight. the world hopping can be kinda neat but dont overdo it with a new world every few pages or so. flesh out some worlds YA readers love world building almost as much as romance.
Does she manage to resurrect and fuck her dad?
Fuck. I was hoping weird readers would just ship the girl and her guide even though he's a hundred years old.
No he's still alive
you gottta remember YA readers are mostly women. they are into older guys sure. but not "creepy" old.
But they do fuck, right? That's the important part.
I was about to ask.
If it helps he's a bird.
Sure user. If it gets published that'll be canon.
Alright, I'll pirate your book if it actually comes out, Electra.
ty user
Whats a good fantasy involving witches that isn't pandering to your typical modern woman YA reader? Whether the witch is the main character or not doesn't matter, romance/adventure preferred. Is there such books, or is the witch subject completely seized by teenagers and genderists? I hope u understand what Im looking for, basically a objectively good book on the subject rather than the typical modern interpretation.
You could have mentioned that 23 hours ago
To the guy who recommended Laird Barron, thank you, I'm through 2 of his books and starting on Occultation today
The Witcher
Objectively good? Asking for a bit much here.
I kinda enjoyed the witchcraft stuff in Daniel Black, even if they were sorta thotty.
Are there any YA fantasy novels with male protagonists that never get cucked?
The only good witch things I can think of are anime/manga or some of the Discworld books.
Thanks, objectively good maybe is a tad to much, i'm just intrigued by the concept of men being physically strong and women being supernaturally strong, just think of how many entertaining romantic interactions one can create with this alone, alongside with an adventure as a main plot.
Do share, I've seen Claymore and even though it isn't about witches, it kind of resembles what Im after.
By witch do you mean pointy hat flying broom, or just women that do magic?
The Warlord Chronicles has a qt druidette who goes batshit with cauldrons and human sacrifice and shit.
>i'm just intrigued by the concept of men being physically strong and women being supernaturally strong, just think of how many entertaining romantic interactions one can create with this alone
Then Daniel Black isn't for you, after all. You might enjoy the anime Grimoire of Zero, though.
Is she a cat?
She's human. They've got a cat locked in a magical cage though.
>By witch do you mean pointy hat flying broom, or just women that do magic?
Nope, although doesn't matter. Women who do magic in a good story (not necessarily with focus on sexuality) is what I'm after.
Apologies,I'm to vague in my descriptions, I'm not looking for romance specifically, i'll gladly take adventure or horror as well, anything well written is on the table for me.
/sffg/ recommend me something similar to Destroyermen series.
Does the cat turn into a girl when they cross into Wonderland?
Would that help your penis user?
Depends. Mostly it would make me happy.
More fantasy novels need to use a prehistoric setting instead of the usual medieval setting considering how violent those times were and how every group was probably terrified of every supernatural thing they could cook up. Not to mention some of the monster-sized animals that existed then.
Clan of the Cave Bear?
Age of Swords
Yeah, cavemen make such interesting characters.
Lol, that should be the next Book of the Month
Rallying Cry. Civil War era soldiers stuck in medieval !Russia
Literally the premise of Wheel of time unless you're just asking for something with similar dynamics. Though men with powers become a thing as it goes along. I like that idea also, not sure if anyone else tried to do the same thing or if everyone's scared of being called copycats.
read that too, thanks nevertheless
He said witches, not bitches user. Do you need glasses?
i know of about 36 ways to club a women over the head and then drag her of by her hair to snusnu with in my cave.
get on my level cro-magnon > neanderthal.
Who's the shakespeare of this genre?
Aes Sedai are witches and will be purged by those who stand in the Light.
Will female protagonists forever be a meme? Is it possible to make an interesting female lead whose sole characteristic isn't that she's a woman who is "witty and badass" like so many authors these days try to force?
The Spook's Apprentice. The series goes downhill, but first book is genuinely creepy.
I'll tell you when I get to the Empire Trilogy of Riftwar, just started Magician, the MC of that is supposed to be a feminine girl. Also have Sabriel and Kushiel's Dart in my backlog.
Captain Pyanfar Chanur can cure what ails you.
Maria the Virgin Witch is pretty much what you're after, as it makes relevant use of women being the ones with magical power. It also features the best depiction of medieval combat I've seen, and is not nearly as trashy as the title makes it sound.
Ojamajo Doremi is the best anime about witches, and it's not aimed at teenage girls but little girls and [s4s]. But it probably isn't what you think you want as it's an excellent kids' show.
Fushigi Mahou Fun Fun Pharmacy is also for little girls, but it's more introspectve and contemplative than Doremi, like an anime Petit Prince.
Damn,Elric of Melnibone looks like THAT?!!
I haven't read it but Fritz Lieber (of Grey Mouser) wrote a book called Conjure Wife where a man finds out his wife is a witch.
More *GOOD fantasy novels need to use a prehistoric setting
I'd rather read about a caveman at this point instead of another EPIC FANTASY LOSER PROTAG GETS KEKED IN BORING MEDIEVAL SETTING character.
>tfw no hairy cavewoman gf
Is there any fantasy which is actually a high aesthetic achievement like Shakespeare or Homer level writing, or is it all silly claptrap dustbin of history type stuff?
Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore is apparently a very well written female fantasy protagonist that doesn't rely on the BAD ASS BITCH WITH A HEART MADE OF CUNT WHO CAN KICK THE PATRIARCHY'S ASS WHILE DRINKING HER COOL AUNT WINE trope.
I liked "Mammoth Hunters" 1918, by Eduard Štorch. Not a fantasy novel, but still.
Pretty much every book by J.-H. Rosny is about fantasy cavemen,His most famous is The Quest for Fire (sometimes translated as the War for Fire)
I liked Emily in Guns Of The Dawn, she felt more like a spoiled noblewoman who was horrendously unprepared for a war and survived by sheer dumb luck in the beginning when she knew sweet fuck all instead of just "woman is magically just as good at combat as all the men, better in fact."
It kinda helped that it was a flintlock fantasy though so she had a rifle instead of a sword, little more equal playing field.
What's a good book that captures the feeling of a magical forest?
idk, you might like Gormeghast
Lord of the Rings.
Lyonesse by Jack Vance.
Hey friends, I'm posting birdboi again.
Lord of the Rings and maybe Book of the New Sun approach, but i dont think they're anywhere near Homeric
Sounds lame, but I guess people are buying this shit right now, so...
>If I have 200 words of irrelevant bullshit about my world per each line that actually advances the plot, people will think me world is detailed!
Alright I'm gonna start in on Trollslayer tonight. Gonna be pissed off if it isn't the 'bros being bros Sword & Sorcery' I want it to be.
I dont think the goad is real. I think its a trick.
How good is this series? goodreads.com
Here we go again, michael scott earle ranting on facebook. Prepare for dump.
Michael-Scott Earle (1/?)
Here's what happened with Isaac Hooke. I wasn't going to talk about it and tarnish his reputation, but it seems like he's throwing me under the bus with this, so I'll tell my side of the story.
But first, let me back up a bit to when I was writing Destroyer.
No one said it would sell.
No one thought a book about a bad-ass dude killing elves and banging women would ever be a hit in the market. Surprise. Destroyer did great.
I wrote Concrete Chaos, no one said it would sell. No one wanted to read a book about a girl riding her motorcycle in future cyberpunk San Jose. Turns out there were right, and the series bombed.
I wrote Rockstar Romance. No one said it would sell. "No one wants to read slice of life sex books for dudes." Turns out they were right.
When I wrote Star Justice, all my author friends laughed at me "People aren't going to read a book about a weretiger on a space ship." Yet SJ is one of the best selling space opera books ever published.
When I wrote Tamer: King of Dinosaurs. I had the same naysayers. "No one wants dinosaurs, or wilderness survival or anything like that. You are wasting your time. Write SJ." Surprise, Tamer is one of the best selling science-fiction books of all time. And each one when they are published hits sub 20 in Amazons sales rankings. The books have done extremely well. Crazy well. Way better than anyone ever dreamed they could do- even me.
Michael-Scott Earle (2/?)
So like any good business owner, I want to protect my brands. The Trademark filings I do are for book series, not for "use of the word" and the intent is to keep people from trying to gain their fortunes from my brands or dilute my brands. It's important stuff because a lot of readers just don't do any research. I can't tell you how many people have tried to join this facebook group by answering the questions with "Bethany Anne is my favorite of all your characters." (That's a Michael Anderle character). Or "I really love Valens." (That's a John Van Stry book). Or "Super sales if my favorite of your books ( Will Arand wrote that, in case you didn't know.)
There is also the factors of rip off artists. Both John, and Jason Cipriano, and I have had our works plagiarized by other authors. It doesn't feel good, and it makes us wonder why we even bother being creators if someone is just going to copy our work so that they can make a few hundred dollars.
So last year I filed for trademarks for my popular series. I received all but the Dragon Slayer and Destroyer marks- that the government asked me to re-file with a few exceptions so they weren't as broad. (Disney has Destroyer TMed for comic books- which the case manager felt was too close to our somewhat broad filing of book series, and Dragon Slayer they wanted to specify the genre and 'male fantasy')
So then Isaac Hooke comes out with his Monster Tamer series. I had a TON of you all PM me with outrage. I thought it was obvious that he was trying to rip me off, and if you all don't know, Isaac Hooke has a reputation for doing this. He ripped off Star Wars for his first LitRPG book (you can see the cover on goodreads, I won't post it here), and he did a rip off of Bobiverse. I wasn't surprised he was ripping off my series, so when it was obvious he was making it a series, my lawyer sent him and Amazon a C&D letter.
Amazon took his books down, and Isaac sent me a sob email explaining that he didn't think it would be a big deal, and he's going to change the name. I didn't reply to him, but he changed the name (To Monster Breaker I think), and the books went back up.
Then I watched them.
They absolutely tanked in sales.
Within a few days, they were selling half as much. Then within a week, they were selling a quarter as much, then a tenth as much.
Then Isaac changed the names back to Monster Tamer.
No surprise, the books started to turn around. Every day they gained sales until they were finally back at where they were before I sent the C&D letter.
Michael-Scott Earle (3/3)
I absolutely was fine with him doing a name change, and I wasn't going to do anything else, but he PURPOSELY changed the names back. It is OBVIOUS that he did it because the series wouldn't sell unless he had "tamer" in the subject line- so that he could ride my coattails.
Guys, I can't even publish a Tamer book on Amazon, and this asshole is making tons of money off that. Everyone is looking for my books, and they see his because mine aren't up, and they give him a chance they NEVER would have given him had my books been up and he not had "Tamer" in the title.
Turns out, that's everything my lawyers needed to sue him.
We sent him ANOTHER C&D letter last week in good faith asking him to PLEASE change the book titles back, or we would sue him. He said he needed "Time to think about it and talk to a lawyer"
Now he's got this thing at the back of his books throwing me under the bus for his poor decisions.
That kind of seems like slander, doesn't it?
BTW- I've spent over $7k in legal fees trying to stop him from doing this. I'll probably never see a dime of that back.
Who is the bad guy?
I want to HUG Paksenarrion.
> Guys, I can't even publish a Tamer book on Amazon
And that's for doing his own shady shit so he gets no sympathy from me even if that other guy is a slimeball too.
A cute
MSE is the most whiny author in the medium right now.
What did he do?
The series degenerates into dumb sex and romance halfway through the second book.
Black Jewels Trilogy
Kim Harrison's Hollow series went to shit near the end though
Stacie Kane, kinda
I still find it funny how the entire climax of the series is Ayla introducing the concept of monogamous relationships both parents taking care of the child, not just the mother.
What Middle-Earth stuff is worth reading behind The Hobbit/LotR?
His next rant will be about someone posting his stuff off the group.
He was banned when Amazon caught him artificially inflating his KU revenue - I can't remember if was padding or fake page reads. Basically fraud.
Shame the series goes to utter shit in book 3.
The part where she gets gangbang raped is great though.
she didn't deserve all that bullshit
seeing her friends die was sad as fuck
no
she was supposed to be pure
fuck
How far is loli space princess marine?
Anyone has access to his subscribe star page?
There's a dangerous lack of western magical girl novels. Someone needs to fix this.
Reading Wandering Inn. There's a disappointing lack of any kind of degeneracy but it's still great.
I read the first chapter and stopped when the main character "leveled up" because I don't like litrpg stuff. Does it get better?
No, the levelling aspect never goes away, the book on the whole is a blend of slice of life/epic fantasy/litrpg.
Why didn't the King of Games tap Tattersail?
I get what you mean. I read that a year ago and still think about it off and on. Some books that are similar that you may like are Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright and my favorite book Entropy of Imagination by Ryan Somma (It is free to download from the author).
Little blue always being described when she purifies but never when she gets fed is giving me ocd
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>12877199
She gets described eating scales every now and then.
You're just a pervert that wants her to open her mouth extra wide and point a finger to it.
What are some modern or at least recent-ish sci-fis I can read? I realized I've only been looking at classics.
Which or how many of the Dune sequels should I read after the first book? I'm debating whether to read just the one,or all six written by Frank.
Idk why I replied I didn't mean to click on that post sorry
Read the first 4. You can go and read the next 2 but don't expect the same quality. Don't read anything else by his son.
I suggest like blood song, you see dune as a standalone.
I'm trying to track down a sci fi book I read in high school, and I so far haven't been able to recall enough about it to identify it.
It was about a guy who somehow got frozen or petrified through science, then wound up being freed so far in the future that man was gone and Earth was totally different, the dominant races being creatures that had been animals but had since evolved. Other than that, the author threw around the word "brobdingnagian" enough that it stuck in my memory.
I know it's a long shot, but does that sound familiar to anyone?
Cuck list
What actually went through the mind of the author when he started writing the sequels to that book? I heard somewhere it was due to editorial pressure to make it more like GoT with politics and superwomen female characters but holy shit how does a drop in quality of that magnitude happen? What a disappointment. Not that the first book was even that amazing, but it was a suitably okay read whereas book 2 was a legit -5/10. Has anyone read book 3? What's it like?
3 was worse.
Like how 3 was worse for the unhewn throne.
Do you fellas like Neil Gaiman? I enjoy his fantasy stuff and short stories
cheers. have wanted to read this for a while
>protagonist fucks her husband’s then marries him before the husband’s corpse is cold best friend
>this is romantic
>Her new manwhore husband fucks her cousin
>this is evil and unforgivable
I loved the Sandman comics
Let me guess, female author?
Incels please leave
This sounds like something you can see coming from a mile away.
I bet the the title of the book, the blurb, the cover and writers identity all warn you this is how the book is going to be and yet you still chose to read it. No sympathy for idiots who ignore obvious tells to read trash.
Anything with qt horse nomads gf who drink from the skulls of their fallen foes with their civilised bf?
>nomads
>qt
Smells of horses.
Hnnnnghhhh
I've read the first book (can barely remember anything about it), but never bothered with the sequels. Break it down for me in detail about how truly bad they really are.
Just go fuck a horse if that's your thing
Last of the Amazons
Skull drinking horse barbarians are my thing
>amazons
No thanks
The word "barbarian" is Roman chauvinism
Read it, stupid. The Amazons in the story are just like the pictures of the women you're posting: horse warriors who use bows and war axes and who collect the scalps of the people they kill in battle.
I'm not falling for your muscle fetish
Greek*
>Roman barbarians being able to come up with anything by themselves
Suit yourself. You're missing out on cute barbarian horse warrioresses having civilized Athenian boyfriends.
Alright, you have my attention
>What time period is it set in?
>Are they actually amazons in the sense that they come from a tribe with no men?
>is the fighting realistic or are they super human?
If you were interested in reading more about Vaelin's adventures, you'd be shit out of luck because the majority of the book is devoted to superwoman Reva. Who's that? Some character nobody knows or cares about who gets forced upon us as the heroine of the majority of the book. The 6th Order trains boys over a decade to become warriors. Meanwhile she spends two weeks with Vaelin and shits lightning out her ass. With that over with, we can follow her adventures tackling her daddy issues and becoming the hero of LGBT rights. If that's not to your liking you can read about Frentis and his relationship issues. Or maybe Lyrna, the world's smartest woman. Did I mention they're all reluctant heroes who are amazing warriors, leaders, and brilliant tacticians? They also all feel endlessly guilty about causing death and violence even when they're only defending themselves and others. Wow, what diversity. Every new POV sounds the exact same as the one that came before, and the one to come after.
Vaelin, the only character everyone came for, ended book 1 as a man on a quest; rescue Frentis, find Sherin, get entangled again with prophecies and enemies like the One Who Waits. Clear. Simple. In book 2 he's now some kind of wandering pacifist who couldn't give two shits about either Frentis or Sherin. Literally I think there's two lines in the book about her. Frentis was a impressionable, feisty young man. Now he has no character at all to speak of. Lyrna was smart, calculating with her own ambitions and plans for her kingdom. Now she reveals herself to be an empty headed retard who can do nothing on her own and thinks even less.
Forging your own path was a big theme of Blood Song, and it was the conflict in Vaelin's character that serving the King led him to do things he was personally opposed to, and the reader was there to see if he could reconcile the various conflicts of loyalty, religion, morality, and personal desire. In book 2, he immediately abandons his mission to rescue Frentis at the request of the king. That's completely out of character for a man who finished the first book tested and ready to reclaim his own destiny after only having been led for so long. He was finally unshackled and ready to rumble, and it all goes absolutely nowhere.
I could go on and on about more issues like pacing, the lack of action or anything interesting happening, the horrible forced contemporary issues, the failed GoT attempt, horrid story and writing, etc, but I won't because any time spent thinking about this book is a fucking waste of my life and I spared this much only to rant and express my total and complete disgust for it.
>If you were interested in reading more about Vaelin's adventures
His adventures were absolutely shit in the first book too, it was legitimately the story of a boring Mary Sue going on an epic training arc in Not Highschool. It's quite obvious that Anthony Ryan cannot write at all for shit and is even worse than Rothfuss. He is just like Yoon Ha Lee, Ann Leckie and a whole bunch of other new authors who cannot write and/or deliver upon their promises to readers (even worse than them actually because they at least wrote one good standalone first book before falling into a shitpile that is called second and third book syndrome, whilst this series does not even have that).
And his Draconis Memoria series is just as consummately awful as this one. It starts out well and then goes to complete shit when anything remotely frightening about the setting is rendered absurd by lizard people made with a magic rock.
>What time period is it set in?
Greece's mythological past when Theseus was supposedly around (it FEELS like a fantasy novel, but it's historical fiction that features Greek myth characters in a historical setting).
>Are they actually amazons in the sense that they come from a tribe with no men?
There's multiple tribes, but yes; they are a nation entirely of women.
>is the fighting realistic or are they super human?
It's definitely realistic since it's written by Steven Pressfield (who wrote the legendary Gates of Fire novel) and no they're not super human. I would say 85% of all the action featuring the Amazons is totally believable. It's only near the end where the inevitability starts getting stretched a bit, but by that point I didn't care. And I say that as someone who is very anti-feminist and hates GRRL POWER bullshit in anything. There's none of that here. Pressfield just wanted to write a 'what if' novel about the Amazons if they actually did historically exist.
I liked the ending of Blood Song. The rest was amateur and forgettable, but the ending made the book stick in my mind. I wish it hadn't because it only exposed me to its sequels.
>but the ending made the book stick in my mind
Maybe they spend more time thinking about what they're going to put in the ending to their debut, than what they are going to put in the next book.
This is why one-and-done novels need to make a comeback.
I thought for a second this was about Michael Scott from the Office being an earl in an isekai or something. I'd read that book.
When will it be announced >.< I want to start reading now
what
The monthly reading for April
>ctrl + f "monthly
>6 matches, repeating announcements
its here smartboi
is there any news about progress with amazon?
i really dont care about all this drama bullshit. i just wanna read tamer ;_;
So did anyone ever get an ARC copy of Blood Heir by Amelie Zhao, the YA novel that got withdrawn because the SJWs apparently hated because it enslaved black people or something?
just finished the first book
best fantasy i've read so far this year
No user I self-insert as little blue
did anyone here read their books? i just checked while it has 4+ star on goodreads it doesn't look convincing
He writes pretty similar to Sanderson so I would try Sanderson's books, Brent Weeks' Lightbringer, Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny and the Foundation trilogy by Asimov (scifi) if you like books with lots of plot twists.
i like tamer but thats about it. never read a book from the other guy.
There is absolutely no link between liking Sanderfag and Zolazny. Please retract your post and apologise.
i tried sanderson but for some reason i can't get excited when i read this books
i will try again in a few months though, when i have more time
They are similar. Chronicles, unlike his works like Lord of Light, is much more on the plot twists and turns > prose point with a slight YA feel even if Zelazny's prose is automatically nicer.
I get the same thing from Sanderson. Everything he writes just seems.. Sterile. Everything is clean and clearly defined with no rough edges. It's really hard to put into words, but when you compare him to a lot of other Fantasy writers, particularly people like Robert Jordan, his characters just seems to lack that human texture. His characters haven't got their individual verbal tics and habits that really make characters stand out as individuals.
*his books
sry for typo
>...when you compare him to ... Robert Jordan, his characters just seems to lack that human texture. His characters haven't got their individual verbal tics and habits that really make characters stand out as individuals.
WoT readers think that characters smoothing their skirts and tugging their hair braids constitutes "human texture"
Cringe and fagpilled
I was obviously referring to speech patterns, actually, and I was just using it as an example because Jordan put a lot of effort into it. You could cite Michael Crichton for doing it too, or a whole host of other Sci-fi/Fantasy authors. Ian Malcolm has his habit of speaking out loud to himself all through the Jurassic Park novels for example, and he's the only character who really does it.
Everything character Sanderson writes sounds in my head like a midwestern American.
>Sanderson and Jordan fans posting at the same time
Authors don't have more literary cred than any other authors, user and authors don't write in a vacuum. It's good for people to get a variety of recommendations, especially if people read because they enjoy reading and not because they want to appear as the most well read person on Yea Forums.
Sorry, did you want to go back to jerking off about Book of the New Sun for the fifth year running?
Your first sentence makes no fucking sense.
I hope you know that those "qts" ways of bonding with their horses was fucking them.
You're bored huh? You should have told him to read it. I feel he is a memer who doesn't read, pretending like he read a book, so we can give him information that can only be found if he actually read the book. This will give him more shitposting power.
silmarillion is a must-read
>particularly people like Robert Jordan
Well you like Jordan and have shit tastes, what do you expect? You can't expect people to write trash like WoT in this day and age.
You're projecting.
you dont say, might give this a read
recommend me a fantasy or historical fiction based off the feeling of this picture
The Once and Future King
i don’t like Wolfe either
Well done Sherlock.
Warlord Chronicles, War of the Roses by Ian Conninglun (that’s definitely not how you spell his name).
what? where do i find reading materials for this
Do you have any images or diagrams to back up your wild claims?
Anyone else read this? I thought it was decent. I liked the characters, the world, the prose. Plot was decent, could have been better.
Someone read it before and gave us a complete quick run down. It's shit.
Couldn't you at least obsess over something more interesting?
Stop giving him attention
Stop giving attention to the user that gives attention to the user that gives attention to birdboi.
This
Is there a cure for us?
.45 asprin
I just want a good non YA Sci-fi book to scratch my itch, recommendations?
Anybody read these books? I'm kind interested in them after watching Black Cauldron, that fantasy movie that Disney refuses to acknowledge because production was a complete nightmare and the film itself flopped hard.
posting random shit so i can call the slave to remind him of his place
YA but good YA. It's like the LotR for fantasy ya authors, you'll find a lot of tropes that are cliche but only because everyone else copied it.
Read those in middle school. They were excellent.
>Eragon
>not God tier
Memecrombie
>fun
Herbert
>shit
Do you ever feel bad about all the oxygen you waste user?
EARLY THREAD BECAUSE I'LL BE BUSY FOR THE NEXT 2 HOURS.
Will loli ever get normalized?